Lecture
Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
- Date
- Wednesday 15 May 2024
- Time
- Address
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 0.19
Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and documents how Israeli universities are directly complicit in the violation of Palestinian rights.
Speakers
Maya Wind is a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Her scholarship broadly investigates how settler societies and global systems of militarism and policing are sustained, with a particular focus on the reproduction and export of Israeli security expertise. She has received support for her research from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Killam Laureates Trust. Her book, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom was published in 2024 by Verso Press.
This session will be chaired by Tsolin Nalbantian, Associate Professor of Modern Middle East History
Leiden University Teach-In Series on Palestine & Israel
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